Cultivator attachment



(No Model.)

D. J. BISSELL.

GULTIVATE ATTAGHMHNT.

110.888,981. Patented 11115781.1887.

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DANIEL J.l EIssELL, on ANAMosA, IOWA.

CU LTivAToR ATTACH M ENT.

SPECIFICATION forming'- part of Letters Patent No. 363,981, dated May 31, 1887 Application filed March 9, 1887.

fo all whom it may concern/f Beit known that I, DANIEL J. BissELL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Anamosa, in the county of Jones and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Plow and'Gultivator Attachments; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the'accompu nying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure l of the drawings is a representation of my invention, and is a perspective view of the same. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the plate A. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the plate A.

My invention relates to plow and c-ultivator attachments; and it consists in the construction and novel combination of parts, as hereinafter described and claimed.

The object of the invention is to provide an attachment that may be. secured to a plow or 'cultivator to cut thc weeds and to loosen and pulverize the soil between the rows of corn, cotton, sugar-cane, or sorghum, or other crop that has to be cultivated by animal power.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, A designates an attaching-plate, of iron or steel, the shank or stem S of wbich'is secured tothe lower end of the plow-standard or cultivator-standard E by bolts G G and a clamp, F, the latter embracing the standard and being secured in place by nuts.

B is the cutting blade or shovel, which is connected to the lower edge of the plate A by connecting-bars C vC C, spaces D D I) being left between the connecting-bars C C for ther loosened soil to pass through, whereby it is crushed, broken, or pulverized veryne and Serial No. 230,271. (No model.)

separated from the weeds. The connecting. bars C C stand vertical and the blade B stands nearly horizontal, it being given a slight pitch downward from its rear edge forward Short rectangular blades or fingers I-I H project or depend at right angles from the rear edge of the blade B, and are about one and a half inch long and serve to stir and mellow the soil below the bladeB. The blade B is a thin plate of caststeel made verysharp, and is de 'signed to run from one inch to one and a hall' inch deep in the ground, and tovrun nearly horizontal. The clods and loosened soil pass back through the spaces D D and are broken The combination, with the attachingiplate, of the cutting-blade connected thereto by eounecting-bars having spaces l) D between them, and the pulverizing-tngers depending at right angles from the rear edge of the cutting-blade, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses. v

DANIEL J. nI'ssEL'n Witnesses:

J. S. STAoY, F. T. Fnosr.

and finely pulverizedy in passing through. I 

